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Cross-Cultural Conversations
Reading Buchi Emecheta
Cross-Cultural Conversations
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In this first full-length study of Emecheta's fiction, Fishburn highlights the difficulties inherent in reading across cultures. She challenges the notion that all we need to understand African texts is a willingness to be open to them, arguing that too many of the cultural and critical preconceptions we bring to these texts interfere with our ability to understand them. Directly responding to Western feminist criticism written about Emecheta, this study argues that Emecheta herself is not a feminist in the Western sense and that her novels should not be construed as reflecting this political interest. In close readings of eight of her best known works, this study reveals a complex narrative voice which is far more supportive of Emecheta's own African culture and its tradition than has been recognized previously.
Table of Contents
Preface: A Hybrid Text
Introduction: A Question of Power
The Author-and Reader-As Other: A Postmodern Approach to African Fiction
Aesthetics, Language, and Politics
Life as an Emigré
The Sense of an Ending
The Difference of View
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 25 Apr 1995 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780313295898 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Series | Contributions to the Study of World Literature |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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